This is a blog created for a level 4 full-time class http://ourclass2007.blogspot.com/
It's an excellent example of a well researched and organised site. The lay out is clear with text and photographs in the main body and links and archived posts on the right.
The teacher Rosa uses her blog to direct and instruct her students, she creates exercises and tasks around the four macro skills and uses these to solidify previous classroom teaching. Articles and questionnaires are posted which teach reading skills, descriptions are written by students and posted on their own blogs. Podcasting and story telling are used for both listening and speaking practice “everything is interconnected and compliments each other”. (Rosa Ochoa 2007)
Student’s blogs are used in much the same way as a portfolio for assessment purposes. Rosa has created a rubric and entries are assessed in the same way as classroom activities. She uses a communicative task based methodology in her blog.
Useful links on the right include ESL links and previous class blogs. There is also a section for tutorials where Rosa has provided instructions on how to use a number of tools including
Making a blog http://esl.osu.edu/staff/bloch/bloggertutorial/pages/ and
How to how to podcast http://rosaspodcast.blogspot.com/2005/11/instructions-to-record-your-voice-for.htmlPodcast
A section for teachers contains links to new technologies and latest developments in Social software. Other links include Student blogs, Other College Blogs, Internet Courses, Listening/Podcasting to name a few.
Rosa has also facilitated global contacts between her students and herself with teachers and students from all over the world including Barcelona, Brazil, Portugal, New Zealand and here in Australia. ESL Class Blogs for p2p Exchanges
The ability of the students to maintain these blogs is evidence of a fifth skill being acquired in the classroom. The use of CALL software is a transferable skill and a valuable asset for future work and training.
The success of this blog is in large due to the commitment on the part of the teacher. This is not only evident in the level of complexity and variety of tools it offers but in the involvement on the part of the teacher. She has embraced it as a teaching tool but also as a means of communication to a wider audience. Evident in her post during her holidays in Spain and comments posted by four students…..it moves in and out of the classroom which is a large part of its appeal.
It's an excellent example of a well researched and organised site. The lay out is clear with text and photographs in the main body and links and archived posts on the right.
The teacher Rosa uses her blog to direct and instruct her students, she creates exercises and tasks around the four macro skills and uses these to solidify previous classroom teaching. Articles and questionnaires are posted which teach reading skills, descriptions are written by students and posted on their own blogs. Podcasting and story telling are used for both listening and speaking practice “everything is interconnected and compliments each other”. (Rosa Ochoa 2007)
Student’s blogs are used in much the same way as a portfolio for assessment purposes. Rosa has created a rubric and entries are assessed in the same way as classroom activities. She uses a communicative task based methodology in her blog.
Useful links on the right include ESL links and previous class blogs. There is also a section for tutorials where Rosa has provided instructions on how to use a number of tools including
Making a blog http://esl.osu.edu/staff/bloch/bloggertutorial/pages/ and
How to how to podcast http://rosaspodcast.blogspot.com/2005/11/instructions-to-record-your-voice-for.htmlPodcast
A section for teachers contains links to new technologies and latest developments in Social software. Other links include Student blogs, Other College Blogs, Internet Courses, Listening/Podcasting to name a few.
Rosa has also facilitated global contacts between her students and herself with teachers and students from all over the world including Barcelona, Brazil, Portugal, New Zealand and here in Australia. ESL Class Blogs for p2p Exchanges
The ability of the students to maintain these blogs is evidence of a fifth skill being acquired in the classroom. The use of CALL software is a transferable skill and a valuable asset for future work and training.
The success of this blog is in large due to the commitment on the part of the teacher. This is not only evident in the level of complexity and variety of tools it offers but in the involvement on the part of the teacher. She has embraced it as a teaching tool but also as a means of communication to a wider audience. Evident in her post during her holidays in Spain and comments posted by four students…..it moves in and out of the classroom which is a large part of its appeal.
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